Yesterday’s Guardian carried a small story about the Tate gallery having an exhibition of paintings by Western artists that have an Eastern subject. The headline was “Gateway to the East: Tate shows rediscovered works” but it the story itself contains something of a rediscovered word… look in the antepenultimate paragraph and there is the quote: […]
Entries from June 4th, 2008
Feeling good
June 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Feeling good · Music, Technology
Tonight I backed up the whole site, upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, upgraded a few plugins, had a little tinker and (nearly) everything still works OK. I feel good so I’m testing it out by inserting a bit of Dr. Feelgood. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video […]
Crime and punishment
June 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Crime and punishment · Politics, Technology
Talking about mobile phones, as I was a moment ago, I had one of my trademark bizarre ideas this evening. At a meeting of the Horsham Labour Party there was a lot of discussion about policies, which is always a good thing. It was prompted by some draft manifesto-type documents that we were invited to […]
Technologically challenged
June 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Technologically challenged · Technology
There are some techie things I love because they just do their job so well, and some I just like for the sake of the technology itself, but I have one glaring and increasingly embarrassing blind spot with gadgets: the mobile phone. And last week I found out just how big that blind spot is.
